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Thomas L. Knapp
Jan 14, 2026, 6:17:43 AM (7 days ago) Jan 14
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Iran: Regime warns of regional states of strikes on US bases if attacked
2) US House GOP seeks to hold Bill Clinton in contempt for skipping Epstein deposition
3) Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner “to meet Putin in Moscow for peace talks”
4) Bitcoin surges above $95,000 as ether, solana, cardano jump 8% on investor optimism
5) Scott Adams, 1957-2026
6) SCOTUS hears arguments in cases challenging transgender sports bans
7) China: Regime urges Canada to break from US influence as PM Carney visits Beijing
8) Ice Barbie Ends Temporary Protected Status for Somali Nationals, Sets Deadline to Leave US
9) South Korea: Prosecutor seeks death penalty for Yoon over martial law decree
10) Idiot pol introduces Greenland annexation bill in US House
11) Global central bankers defend Fed’s Powell after Trump threat
12) BBC seeks to dismiss Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit
13) Poland: Regime faces millions in EU fines as president vetoes Internet censorship bill
14) France: Deaths overtake births for first time since World War 2
15) NE: McKeon resigns from legislature amid accusations of inappropriate behavior
16) US: Judge rules firm can resume wind project halted by Trump
17) Argentina: Regime repays $2.5 billion bailout to US Treasury
18) Uganda: Regime Orders Two Rights Groups to Halt Work Days Before Election
19) MN: Tensions flare as protesters and gang thugs repeatedly square off
20) Trump Threatens New Tax Hike on American Buyers of Goods from Countries “Doing Business” with Iran
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
22) When Physicians Are Replaced with a Protocol
23) Germany’s Latest War on Freedom
24) Data Centers Might Break the Grid? Good, Something Needs To.
25) The Consequences of Another US Attack on Iran
26) We’re Always Told It: Everyone In The Empire-Targeted Nation Hates Their Government
27) Identification Is Error
28) What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood
29) Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade: 12 Years of Lies, Torture, Drones…. and Hope?
30) Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil
31) End Debanking by Removing Government from Reputation Regulation
32) The prime of tough-guy progressivism
33) Orders They Can and Should Refuse
34) Avoiding the Resource Trap in Post-Maduro Venezuela
35) We Shouldn’t Have to Watch a Woman’s Murder to Counter Government Lies
36) Judicial Nation-Building
37) Fed and Powell Under Fire, but Some Argue Independence Was Always an Illusion
38) A Conservative Requiem for Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead
39) How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
40) Will Eric Swalwell Be Kicked Off the Ballot?
41) The Ukraine Snare Still Beckons
42) Cancel Culture Goes MAGA
43) Déjà Vu at the Federal Reserve
44) The Monkey’s Paw Curls
45) Where Big Tech and Trump Are Demanding Tax Cuts and Deregulation
46) US trashed Somalia, can we really scold its people for coming here?
47) Immigration Lightning and Thunder in Minneapolis
48) Starlinking Iranian Protest
49) Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare
50) “Say Her Name” becomes radical rallying cry for Democrats’ mob rule
51) McKinley’s Ghost
52) Can the Ayatollahs Fall?
53) Britain Does Not Have Long to Avoid Economic Collapse
54) Largest Nurses Strike in New York City History Just Kicked Off
55) Trump Promotes Regulatory Relief — Not Subsidies — as the Solution to Obamacare
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56) The Fifth Column, 01/13/26
57) The Good Fight, 01/13/26
58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/13/26
59) Chris Brunet on The Scott Horton Show
60) SolutionsWatch, 01/13/26
61) Advisory Opinions, 01/13/26
62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 01/13/26
63) System Update, episode 564
64) Free Speech Unmuted, 01/12/26
65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/12/26
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1) Iran: Regime warns of regional states of strikes on US bases if attacked
Source: Reuters
“Tehran has warned U.S. allies in the Middle East it will strike U.S. bases on their soil if Washington attacks Iran, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump’s threats to intervene in support of protesters. The death toll from Iran’s unrest climbed to almost 2,600, a rights group said, as the clerical establishment seeks to quell nationwide protests posing one of the biggest challenges to their rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. … Trump has said military action is among the options he is weighing to punish Iran over the crackdown.” (01/14/26)
https://archive.is/EuMrB
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2) US House GOP seeks to hold Bill Clinton in contempt for skipping Epstein deposition
Source: NBC News
“The Republican-led House Oversight Committee announced Tuesday that it will seek to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress after he failed to appear for a deposition as part of the panel’s probe into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. ‘As a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena, which again was voted unanimously by the committee in a bipartisan manner, we will move next week in the House Oversight Committee markup to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress,’ Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill. The committee had scheduled a deposition with Clinton for Tuesday morning, as well as a deposition with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Wednesday. In a letter to Comer, the Clintons said they didn’t plan to appear for the depositions.” (01/13/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-gop-seeks-hold-clinton-contempt-skipping-epstein-deposition-rcna253780
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3) Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner “to meet Putin in Moscow for peace talks”
Source: Independent [UK]
“Donald Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow for another round of peace talks with Vladimir Putin, according to a report. Sources told Bloomberg that the two envoys could meet with the Russian President this month amid faltering efforts by the US to negotiate an end to the conflict. A date for the meeting has not been agreed. … A flurry of diplomatic activity driven by Trump has failed to yield a peace agreement, with Moscow refusing to budge on its maximalist demands and Kyiv continuing to seek security guarantees from Washington.” (01/14/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-live-putin-trump-zelensky-news-b2900083.html
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4) Bitcoin surges above $95,000 as ether, solana, cardano jump 8% on investor optimism
Source: CoinDesk
“Crypto markets ripped higher on Wednesday as easing U.S. inflation and renewed political uncertainty around the Federal Reserve reignited demand for scarce, non-sovereign assets. Bitcoin jumped more than 4% over the past 24 hours, breaking above $95,000 for the first time in a week and pushing toward the upper end of its January range. Ether outperformed, climbing over 7% to around $3,330, while major tokens, such as Solana’s SOL, Cardano’s ADA, and BNB Chain’s BNB, moved as much as 9% higher.” (01/14/26)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/14/bitcoin-surges-above-usd95-000-eth-sol-ada-up-8-as-risk-appetite-snaps-back
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5) Scott Adams, 1957-2026
Source: Variety
“Scott Adams, creator of the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. … Born in Windham, New York in 1957, Adams started drawing comics at age 6, citing the ‘Peanuts’ comics as an early inspiration. … By 1994, ‘Dilbert’ was syndicated in more than 400 newspapers, and in 1995, Adams left Pacific Bell to become a full-time cartoonist.” (01/13/26)
https://variety.com/2026/artisans/people-news/scott-adams-dead-dilbert-creator-1236630162/
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6) SCOTUS hears arguments in cases challenging transgender sports bans
Source: CNN
“The nation’s highest court heard more than three hours of arguments in two cases regarding state bans on transgender students playing on sports teams that are consistent with their gender identity. Chief Justice John Roberts has signaled his skepticism for what he called transgender ‘exception’ for sex-based laws. He also said he the blockbuster 2020 precedent that protects gay and transgender employees from discrimination doesn’t apply to the sports cases, signaling that he is prepared to undermine a central argument from LGBTQ advocates. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that the court cannot look past what he characterized as the ‘harm’ that transgender-inclusive sports policies impose on cisgender women and girl’s sports teams.” (01/13/26)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/supreme-court-arguments-transgender-athletes-01-13-26
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7) China: Regime urges Canada to break from US influence as PM Carney visits Beijing
Source: Associated Press
“As Canadian leader Mark Carney arrives in China on Wednesday, his hosts see an opportunity to peel the longtime U.S. ally away from their rival, at least a bit. China’s state media is calling on the Canadian government to set a foreign policy path independent of the United States — what it calls ‘strategic autonomy.’ Canada has long been one of America’s closest allies, geographically and otherwise. But Beijing is hoping that President Donald Trump’s economic aggression — and, now, military action — against other countries will erode that longstanding relationship.” (01/13/26)
https://apnews.com/article/china-canada-carney-trump-strategic-autonomy-66f1277efa034750f0fd817b3a69bebb
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8) Ice Barbie Ends Temporary Protected Status for Somali Nationals, Sets Deadline to Leave US
Source: Newsweek
“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the U.S. is ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals and set a March 17 deadline for them to leave the country. The move came without an official announcement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or a notice in the Federal Register on Tuesday morning, with the latter generally required to officially terminate TPS. DHS later confirmed the decision to Newsweek but did not provide further background.” (01/13/26)
https://www.newsweek.com/tps-somali-nationals-noem-dhs-trump-minnesota-11351039
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9) South Korea: Prosecutor seeks death penalty for Yoon over martial law decree
Source: The Hill
“An independent counsel on Tuesday demanded the death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024. Yoon, who was removed from office last April and is in jail, faces eight trials over various criminal charges related to his martial law debacle and other scandals related to his time in office. Charges that he directed a rebellion are the most significant ones. Independent counsel Cho Eun-suk’s team requested the Seoul Central District Court to sentence Yoon to death, according to the court, which is expected to deliver a verdict in February. Experts say the court will likely sentence Yoon to life in prison. South Korea hasn’t executed anyone since 1997, and local courts rarely issue the death penalty in recent years.” (01/13/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-independent-counsel-seeks-death-sentence-for-ex-south-korean-leader-yoon-over-martial-law-imposition/
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10) Idiot pol introduces Greenland annexation bill in US House
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A Republican congressman from Florida introduced a bill on Monday to annex Greenland and make it the 51st US state as President Donald Trump threatens to seize the autonomous Danish territory. Trump has said the United States will take Greenland ‘one way or the other,’ floating the idea of buying the territory or taking it by force, despite strong pushback from Denmark, a Nato ally. Representative Randy Fine said his new legislation would authorise Trump ‘to take whatever steps necessary to annex or acquire Greenland.'” (01/13/26)
https://archive.is/PLLrb
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11) Global central bankers defend Fed’s Powell after Trump threat
Source: Reuters
“The chiefs of many of the world’s major central banks issued a joint statement in support of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday, after the Trump administration threatened him with a criminal indictment. Powell is at the centre of a U.S. administration’s criminal probe about the renovation of the Fed’s headquarters, which he called a ‘pretext’ to win presidential influence over interest rates. The heads of the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and eight other institutions said Powell had acted with integrity and that central bank independence was crucial for keeping prices and financial markets stable.” (01/13/26)
https://archive.is/ldNy4
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12) BBC seeks to dismiss Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit
Source: ABC News
“The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show. Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim, filed in a Florida federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices. … The broadcaster has apologized to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded BBC rejects claims it defamed him. The furor triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news. Papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami say the BBC will file a motion to dismiss the case on March 17 on the basis that the court lacks jurisdiction and Trump failed to state a claim.” (01/13/26)
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/bbc-seeks-dismiss-trumps-10b-defamation-lawsuit-florida-129157222
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13) Poland: Regime faces millions in EU fines as president vetoes Internet censorship bill
Source: Politico
“A clash between Poland’s right-wing president and its centrist ruling coalition over the European Union’s flagship social media law is putting the country further at risk of multimillion euro fines from Brussels. President Karol Nawrocki is holding up a bill that would implement the EU’s Digital Services Act, a tech law that allows regulators to police how social media firms moderate content. Nawrocki, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, said in a statement that the law would ‘give control of content on the internet to officials subordinate to the government, not to independent courts.’ The government coalition led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Nawrocki’s rival, warned this further exposed them to the risk of EU fines as high as €9.5 million.” (01/13/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-president-karol-nawrocki-tech-bill-veto-eu-fine/
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14) France: Deaths overtake births for first time since World War 2
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“France recorded more deaths than births in 2025 for the first time since the end of World War II, a development that erodes its long-held demographic advantage over other European Union nations, official figures showed on Tuesday. The national statistics institute INSEE reported 651,000 deaths last year and 645,000 births, which have collapsed in number since the global COVID pandemic. France has traditionally had stronger demographics than most of Europe, but an aging population and falling birthrates show it is not immune to the demographic crunch straining public finances across the continent.” (01/13/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260113-deaths-overtake-births-france-first-time-since-world-war-ii
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15) NE: McKeon resigns from legislature amid accusations of inappropriate behavior
Source: SFGate
“State Sen. Dan McKeon tearfully announced his resignation from the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday ahead of scheduled debate to expel him from the body after accusations that he made a sexually charged comment to a legislative staffer and touched her inappropriately during a session-end party last year. McKeon, a Republican from rural south-central Nebraska who had served only a year before his resignation, announced his resignation and apologized on the legislative floor just minutes before debate that would certainly have included harsh condemnation of McKeon. ‘My words and actions were careless, regardless of the intent,’ McKeon said. ‘I accept my responsibility for the impact of my words and my actions. This past year has humbled me. It requires reflection, listening and learning. Accountability is not only acknowledging my mistake but committing to grow from it. I take that responsibility seriously.'” (01/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/tearful-nebraska-state-sen-mckeon-resigns-amid-21292637.php
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16) US: Judge rules firm can resume wind project halted by Trump
Source: CNBC
“Shares of Danish renewables giant Orsted rose nearly 5% on Tuesday morning, shortly after a U.S. judge cleared the company to resume work on its nearly finished Revolution Wind project. … The White House halted five major offshore wind developments at the end of last year, including Orsted’s project off the coast of Rhode Island. Officials cited national security concerns identified by the Pentagon as the reason for the suspension. Orsted filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s decision earlier this month, saying that the lease suspension would cause ‘substantial harm’ to the Revolution Wind project. In a hearing on Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said the Court should be ‘very skeptical of the government’s true motives’ for putting a stop to the project, according to Reuters news agency.” (01/13/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/13/orsted-trump-wind-power-revolution-wind.html
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17) Argentina: Regime repays $2.5 billion bailout to US Treasury
Source: United Press International
“Argentina has repaid $2.5 billion to the U.S. Treasury, returning funds it received in October under a $20 billion currency swap agreement, authorities from both countries said. Argentina’s central bank said in a statement the repayment was completed Friday, using resources from multilateral financial institutions, without naming them. Some analysts said part of the funds may have come from the Bank for International Settlements, based in Basel, Switzerland, though there was no official confirmation. Argentina only used $2.5 billion from the swap because the credit line functioned as an emergency backstop, not as a loan that had to be fully drawn.” (01/13/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/01/13/latam-argentina-repay-united-states/6061768324855/
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18) Uganda: Regime Orders Two Rights Groups to Halt Work Days Before Election
Source: US News & World Report
“Uganda’s government has ordered two local rights groups to halt their work days before Thursday’s election, which the United Nations Human Rights Office says is taking place in an atmosphere of repression and intimidation. The authorities have detained hundreds of opposition supporters, the UN agency had said in a report in November, ahead of the January 15 election in which President Yoweri Museveni, 81, is looking to extend his four-decade rule. Museveni, who came to power in 1986 after leading a five-year rebellion, is Africa’s third-longest ruling head of state. He has changed the constitution twice to remove age and term limits, and his dominance of Ugandan institutions means there is little prospect of an election upset in the East African country of 46 million, political analysts say.” (01/13/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-13/uganda-orders-two-rights-groups-to-halt-work-days-before-election
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19) MN: Tensions flare as protesters and gang thugs repeatedly square off
Source: SFGate
“Federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritant at activists in Minneapolis on Tuesday as students walked out of a suburban school in protest at the Trump administration’s bold immigration sweeps. The government crackdown is next headed to a federal court where Minnesota and two mayors are asking a judge to immediately suspend the operation. No hearing has been set on the request. Gas clouds filled a Minneapolis street near where Renee Good was [murdered] by an immigration agent last week. A man scrubbed his eyes with snow and screamed for help as agents in an unmarked Jeep sprayed an orange irritant and drove away. It’s common for people to boo, taunt and blow orange whistles when they spot heavily armed agents passing through in unmarked vehicles or walking the streets. ‘Who doesn’t have a whistle?’ a man with a bag of them yelled.” (01/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/tensions-flare-in-minnesota-as-protesters-and-21291914.php
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20) Trump Threatens New Tax Hike on American Buyers of Goods from Countries “Doing Business” with Iran
Source: Time
“As Donald Trump mulls whether or not the U.S. will intervene militarily in Iran in response to the deadliest anti-regime protests and riots there in years, the President is happy to employ one of his ‘favorite’ words to put pressure on Tehran: tariffs. ‘Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America,’ Trump posted on Truth Social Monday night. ‘This Order is final and conclusive.’ It’s unclear what the President meant by ‘doing business,’ and which countries the latest policy actually covers. The White House has not yet published any information about the new tariff policy or what legal authority it relies on, nor did the White House immediately respond to TIME’s request for clarification.” (01/13/26)
https://time.com/7345774/trump-iran-tariffs-trade-china-india-uae-turkiye-brazil/
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21) Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
Source: The UnPopulist
by Shikha Dalmia
“Many government agencies have good intentions but can produce bad outcomes. However, there is one that has bad intentions and produces evil outcomes: Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. In this Trump administration, as in the previous one, its purpose is to hunt down and eject people whose “crime” is that they can’t obtain a piece of paper from the government authorizing them to live and work in America. … America got along just fine for 227 years till ICE, the monster child of the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, was spawned 23 years ago. It should never have been created in the first place, but now that Trump has turned it into a rights-trampling, rogue agency that shoots first and asks questions later, as the killing of Renee Good, an American citizen and a mother of three, demonstrates, it deserves to be shut down.” (01/13/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ice-it-is-a-threat-to-americans
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22) When Physicians Are Replaced with a Protocol
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“Medicine is defined not by the mechanical execution of tasks, but by the assignment of responsibility when outcomes are unfavorable. Writing a prescription is straightforward; accepting responsibility for its consequences — particularly when considering comorbidities, social context, patient values, or incomplete information — is far more complex. Throughout my career, this responsibility has continuously resided with a human who could be questioned, challenged, corrected, and held accountable. When Dr. Smith makes an error, the family knows whom to contact, ensuring a direct line to human accountability. No algorithm, regardless of sophistication, can fulfill this role. The primary risk is not technological, but regulatory and philosophical.” (01/13/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/when-physicians-are-replaced-with-a-protocol/
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23) Germany’s Latest War on Freedom
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“‘There is no censorship here in Germany,’ according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is providing a road map for freedom can be squashed throughout the western world. Germany was the scene of some of the twentieth century’s worst tyranny but today’s German leaders have only noble intentions for oppression.” (01/13/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/germanys-latest-war-on-freedom
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24) Data Centers Might Break the Grid? Good, Something Needs To.
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“As my kids might say (if they bothered themselves with such issues rather than just plugging their bazillion game consoles into the wall and ignoring such things while raising my electric bill) ;grids are SOOOOOO 20th century.’ The idea of running power lines all over God’s green acre made a certain amount of sense in the 1930s. It makes no sense at all now. … The only real beneficiaries of continued reliance on centralized generation and large-scale ‘grids’ are the utilities which operate those power plants and those grids. They’re holding us back from what could be an era of cheap, clean, reliable energy.” (01/13/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20267
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25) The Consequences of Another US Attack on Iran
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Every time that the U.S. threatens or bombs the non-nuclear weapons state Iran, it vindicates North Korea’s decision to build its own deterrent. If there are any other would-be proliferators contemplating their next steps, they would have strong incentives to imitate North Korea and avoid making the same mistakes as Iran. That is one enduring legacy of our government’s incredibly awful Iran policy. The other is that our government’s policy has given the Iranian government every reason to acquire nuclear weapons despite its many formal commitments to reject that option.” (01/13/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-another-us-attack
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26) We’re Always Told It: Everyone In The Empire-Targeted Nation Hates Their Government
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The regime change supporter’s favorite trick is to pretend the people in the targeted country are an ideological monolith. All Iranians hate their government, all Venezuelans wanted freedom from Maduro, etc. They do this constantly. Thing is, it requires them to dehumanize the very population they’re claiming to care about. They need to pretend the people in the empire-targeted nation are these weird creatures with some kind of Pluribus-style alien brain virus that makes them all think the same as each other, unlike any other human population they themselves have ever encountered. You have never been to a country where everyone has the same attitude toward their government. Neither have I. That would be freakish and abnormal. That’s not how humans are.” (01/13/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/13/were-always-told-that-everyone-in-the-empire-targeted-nation-hates-their-government/
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27) Identification Is Error
Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Once we see ourselves as part of a group, we callously judge outsiders and rally to the cause of foolish insiders. Have you not noticed this in yourself? Once we see ourselves as part of a political whatever, part of a social whatever … it begins tainting what we think and feel. Left to continue, it poisons us against other identities. I’m not talking about simple, cooperative groups, mind you: those we feel free to jump in and out of; there’s not much identification involved. In practice, identification produces a free-for-all, each identity battling the others for whatever can be fought over.” (01/13/26)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/identification-is-error
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28) What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood
Source: Wired
by Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner, & Matt Burgess
“If federal immigration agents are coming to your area — or have already arrived — you may be frantically making plans to lay low at home, or perhaps grabbing your whistle and lacing up your sneakers to join a neighborhood watch. It’s a terrifying situation for undocumented residents and all American immigrants, and the climate has even become fraught for US citizens too. There are no simple answers for how to protect yourself and others in every scenario, but there are frameworks you can use for weighing your options.” (01/13/26)
https://archive.is/UTGRT
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29) Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade: 12 Years of Lies, Torture, Drones…. and Hope?
Source: TomDispatch
by Rebecca Gordon
“‘Tom, I got nothin.’’ That’s all I wanted to say to Tom Engelhardt, the kindly and incisive editor of TomDispatch.com. He’d called to check in and see what I was planning for my next piece. I wanted to tell him, ‘I’m staring at starvation and genocide, the destruction of American democracy and the rule of law, along with the ongoing incineration of our planet. I’m a damp ball of grief, and I’ve got nothing useful to say about any of it.’ Furthermore, I wanted to add, ‘Anything I could say about the present disaster has already been said comprehensively and better by someone else.’ That ‘someone else’ includes myriad excellent journalists who have departed (voluntarily or otherwise) from a mainstream media that has repeatedly acquiesced to Trump, succumbing to a malaise of self-censorship at flagship newspapers like the Washington Post and even the New York Times.” (01/13/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/reflections-on-a-low-dishonest-decade/
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30) Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil
Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark
“After retiring from active service, [General Smedley Butler] was frank about what his role had been. Professing to being a ‘racketeer’ and ‘gangster for capitalism,’ he went on to explain how: ‘I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Boys to collect revenues in. I helped the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.’ That was just a selection. With President Donald Trump in power, we do not need a Butler to give the game away or expose any frightful cabal. The empire is out of the closet, bolshie, bright and more thieving than ever.” (01/13/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/13/candid-imperialism-trump-racketeering-and-venezuelan-oil/
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31) End Debanking by Removing Government from Reputation Regulation
Source: Cato Institute
by Nicholas Anthony
“No government should pressure a bank to cut off customers innocent of any wrongdoing. Yet that is what happened with Operation Choke Point under the Obama administration and that is what happened again with ‘Operation Choke Point 2.0’ under the Biden administration. Even today, countless customers are debanked because the laws and regulations in place have made banks too cautious. It’s time to bring governmental debanking to an end.” (01/13/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/end-debanking-removing-government-reputation-regulation
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32) The prime of tough-guy progressivism
Source: Washington Examiner
by Byron York
“On Saturday, Larry Krasner, the elected Democratic district attorney of Philadelphia, posted a photo of himself on social media. It was a black-and-white picture of a stern-looking Krasner in a dark suit, one hand to his sunglasses. At the bottom of the photo, in all caps, was ‘FAFO’, which of course stands for ‘f*** around and find out.’ The accompanying message said, ‘To [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and the National Guard: if you commit crimes in Philadelphia, we will charge you and hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law.’ Made in the context of the Minneapolis shooting, the post was part of a new wave of tough-guy progressivism in which state and local Democratic officials around the country apparently hope to intimidate the federal government over the enforcement of federal immigration law.” (01/13/25)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/4415211/prime-tough-guy-progressivism-minneapolis-ice-shooting/
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33) Orders They Can and Should Refuse
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin Carroll
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth censured Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, last week for truthfully instructing service members in November that they ‘can refuse illegal orders.’ If anything, Kelly — who on Monday sued Hegseth for violating his First and Fifth Amendment rights –put the matter too mildly: Troops must disobey — and also report — illegal orders. … Last week, in the wake of the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump spoke generally of his desire to obtain Greenland, while deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller and press secretary Karoline Leavitt explicitly raised the possibility of the United States seizing territory belonging to our ally Denmark by force. Such orders are precisely the kind that our military must refuse to obey.” (01/13/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/greenland-trump-military-illegal-orders/
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34) Avoiding the Resource Trap in Post-Maduro Venezuela
Source: EconLog
by Leonida Zelmanovitz
“The recent removal of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela’s presidency is a dramatic development after more than two decades of socialist experimentation under Hugo Chávez and Maduro, characterized by expropriation, macroeconomic mismanagement, and political repression. Although there is much uncertainty about the economic and political future of Venezuela, economics can offer some guidance — and warnings. One such lesson has to do with the dangerous temptation to base economic recovery solely on the oil sector. Venezuela’s prospects depend critically on the quality of its institutional and policy choices from now on.” (01/13/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/avoiding-the-resource-trap-in-post-maduro-venezuela
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35) We Shouldn’t Have to Watch a Woman’s Murder to Counter Government Lies
Source: Common Dreams
by Crystal Coache
“None of us should have to watch videos of our fellow citizens and neighbors being killed to get factual information about what happened. Yet the way President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, described the moment an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a 37-year-old mom and American citizen in broad daylight was so blatantly far off from what happened that I fear we will need to keep seeing for ourselves. I never watch videos of people being killed on purpose. Yet, I clicked on a video of a woman in Minnesota in her SUV who seemed to be in a heated verbal exchange with an ICE agent. I saw her try to pull away from an agent who was reaching into her car, only to be shot at close range as she was trying to leave.” (01/13/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/renee-good-murder-lies
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36) Judicial Nation-Building
Source: Law & Liberty
by Sam Negus
“The Early Republic’s maritime jurisprudence is even more relevant given the immense power of the modern executive.” (01/13/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/judicial-nation-building/
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37) Fed and Powell Under Fire, but Some Argue Independence Was Always an Illusion
Source: Bitcoin.com
by Jamie Redman
“Plenty of people think U.S. President Donald Trump’s verbal shots at the central bank, complete with name-calling aimed at Powell, amount to pressure on the Fed’s independence. According to a Fox Business report, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said Trump’s plan was to ‘install another sock puppet to complete his corrupt takeover of America’s central bank.’ Still, some voices are cutting through the noise, arguing that the idea of an independent U.S. Federal Reserve is merely fiction.” (01/13/26)
https://news.bitcoin.com/fed-and-powell-under-fire-but-some-argue-independence-was-always-an-illusion/
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38) A Conservative Requiem for Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead
Source: The American Conservative
by Ann Coulter
“The Grateful Dead was supremely American. No other nation on earth could have produced music like this, a synthesis of blues, R&B, country, folk, rock, even a little jazz. Nowhere else would a band origin story be the following: The 16-year-old Weir and friends were bumming around Palo Alto on New Year’s Eve 1963, heard the sound of a banjo, and followed it to a music store where they happened upon Jerry Garcia waiting for his banjo students to show up. They never did, so Bobby and his friends picked up some instruments and played jug music with Jerry into the night. It was so much fun, Jerry and Bobby decided to form a band called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, which became the Warlocks, and then the Grateful Dead. Find that in Japan — find it in England.” (01/13/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-conservative-requiem-for-bob-weir-and-the-grateful-dead/
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39) How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Source: The Daily Economy
by Christopher Lingle & Emile Phaneuf III
“The term ‘money laundering’ was coined after the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, yet it was not formalized into law with any federal offense until the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. These days, law enforcement and regulatory agencies such as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) typically use the term alongside other terms that imply an obvious victim needing protection: ‘terrorist financing,’ ‘human trafficking.’ This is meant to provoke a strong reaction against money laundering as a practice. One problem with the association of money laundering with these other terms that obviously justify a strong response to prevent them is that money laundering does not, in itself, always have a clear victim.” (01/13/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-money-laundering-became-a-catch-all-excuse-to-bully-and-surveil-americans/
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40) Will Eric Swalwell Be Kicked Off the Ballot?
Source: Town Hall
by William Marshall
“A largely ignored, but interesting, development has arisen in the upcoming California gubernatorial contest. It is a viable petition that has been filed with the California Secretary of State that could potentially see Rep. Eric Swalwell, contending for the Democratic nomination in the governor’s race, thrown off the 2026 ballot. The legal case has been brought by California resident, documentarian, and indefatigable investigative reporter Joel Gilbert. Gilbert has been doing yeoman’s work for Gateway Pundit in researching and reporting on Swalwell’s apparent gross misrepresentations in various official documents that are shocking in their brazenness. When considered in light of his aspirations for still higher office, you have to be impressed by Swalwell’s chutzpah, a defining characteristic of politicians on the left.” (01/13/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/williammarshall/2026/01/13/will-eric-swalwell-be-killed-off-the-ballot-n2669366
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41) The Ukraine Snare Still Beckons
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Despite the widespread expectation that President Donald Trump would end Washington’s entanglement in NATO’s proxy war using Ukraine against Russia, it is increasingly evident that the fundamental features of U.S. policy remain unaltered. Trump personally has sent an array of mixed signals about his intentions. Although he has pressured Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to accept the reality that Kyiv must be willing to make territorial concessions to Moscow in any peace accord, he also has been receptive to Zelensky’s demand that Ukraine be given reliable ‘security guarantees’ in such a settlement. Indeed, during the recent summit meeting between the two leaders, the main point of disagreement appeared to be that Zelensky wanted a commitment lasting 50 years, whereas Trump was prepared to offer only 15 years.” (01/13/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2026/01/12/the-ukraine-snare-still-beckons/
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42) Cancel Culture Goes MAGA
Source: Liberal Currents
by Guillaume AW Attia
“MAGA’s campaign of government censorship and repression is an assault on fundamental free speech values.” (01/13/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/cancel-culture-goes-maga/
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43) Déjà Vu at the Federal Reserve
Source: Macroeconomic Policy News
by David Beckworth
“The FOMC brought quantitative tightening (QT) to an end at its December 2025 meeting. In doing so, it reaffirmed something that has become increasingly clear over the past decade: the structural size of the Fed’s balance sheet keeps ratcheting higher after each round of QE. It all feels a bit like déjà vu. As Bill Nelson noted, the Fed now believes it needs roughly $3 trillion in reserve balances to operate its floor system, implying a minimum securities portfolio of about $6 1/2 trillion once currency in circulation and the Treasury General Account are taken into account. What stands out is not just the size of that number, but its direction.” (01/13/26)
https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/deja-vu-at-the-federal-reserve
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44) The Monkey’s Paw Curls
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“Isn’t ‘may you get exactly what you asked for’ one of those ancient Chinese curses? Since we last spoke, prediction markets have gone to the moon, rising from millions to billions in monthly volume. … Degenerate gambling is bad. Insofar as prediction markets have acted as a Trojan Horse to enable it, this is bad. Insofar as my advocacy helped make this possible, I am bad. I can only plead that it didn’t really seem plausible, back in 2021, that a presidential administration would keep all normal restrictions on sports gambling but also let prediction markets do it as much as they wanted. If only there had been some kind of decentralized forecasting tool that could have given me a canonical probability on this outcome! Still, it might seem that, whatever the degenerate gamblers are doing, we at least have some interesting data.” (01/13/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-the-monkeys-paw-curls
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45) Where Big Tech and Trump Are Demanding Tax Cuts and Deregulation
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Last month, former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other officials with European nongovernmental organizations were barred from entering the U.S., in what was described as retaliation for ‘censorship’ of U.S. tech platforms in Europe. In reality, it was the latest in a campaign to force the EU to withdraw two regulatory laws, the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act, that U.S. tech firms don’t like. The laws require tech companies to take down illegal content on their platforms, restrict the transfer of user data to multiple platforms run by the same companies, refrain from ‘steering’ users toward their own products, and allow for fair competition in app stores and interoperable social media sites. The travel ban was only the latest in the Trump administration’s special pleading for Big Tech, using threatened tariffs and leverage in trade deals to try to force changes to the EU’s sovereign laws.” (01/13/25)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/13/trump-big-tech-tax-cuts-deregulation-europe-digital-networks-act/
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46) US trashed Somalia, can we really scold its people for coming here?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ahmed Ibrahim
“The relatively small Somali community in the U.S., estimated at 260,000, has lately been receiving national attention thanks to a massive fraud scandal in Minnesota and the resulting vitriol directed at them by President Trump. Trump’s targeting of Somalis long preceded the current allegations of fraud, going back to his first presidential campaign in 2016. A central theme of Trump’s anti-Somali rancor is that they come from a war-torn country without an effective centralized state, which in Trump’s reasoning speaks to their quality as a people, and therefore, their ability to contribute to American society. It is worth reminding ourselves, however, that Somalia’s state collapse and political instability is as much a result of imperial interventions, including from the U.S., as anything else.” (01/13/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/somali-people-in-the-us/
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47) Immigration Lightning and Thunder in Minneapolis
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“People across America are lamenting the killing of a nice woman in Minneapolis named Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent named Jonathan E Ross. Ross was standing on the side of the car Good was driving when he fired three shots at her and killed her. After the killing, someone exclaimed, ‘Fucking bitch.’ Predictably, federal officials have labeled Good a “terrorist” and have immediately rallied to the defense of the ICE killer. Make no mistake about it: No matter the facts of the case, there will be no criminal prosecution of Ross. Under the immigration police state under which we live, ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, military personnel, and other immigration-enforcement goons wield omnipotent authority to kill anyone they want. That’s the type of country in which we all live. Everyone just needs to get used to it.” (01/13/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/01/13/immigration-lightning-and-thunder/
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48) Starlinking Iranian Protest
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“In June 2025, Elon Musk helped protesters in Iran by providing free access to his Starlink satellite service. The service restored a means of communicating with each other and the rest of the world that had been blocked when the Iranian government shut down the country’s Internet. The mullahs tend to do that when the pressure on their regime reaches a certain pitch. As has certainly happened again over the last few weeks. Some 500 protesters have been killed so far, according to the group Human Rights Activists in Iran, as the unrest spreads. Again, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s Internet. Is Musk stepping in?” (01/13/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/13/starlinking-iranian-protest/
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49) Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare
Source: Reason
by Brian Doherty
“A decade into his capture of our political attention spans, there is no longer anything new that can be said about Donald Trump in a big-picture way about his nature as a person or his larger meaning as a political phenomenon. His audacity, so bold at first, and so lubricated in his second go-round, can no longer shock or surprise; his crudeness, so initially colorful, just fades into the dark background of his actions; his bottomless sea of toddlerish willfulness and grievance, so curious and compelling in 2015–16, becomes as notable as water to a fish. We all swim in Trump now, surrounded by his turbulent, turbid murk, descending to fathomless depths, his surface marking the end of what we can know. Near the end of the first full year of his second administration, Donald Trump has demonstrated his core authoritarianism so completely and consistently that his personal character and comportment peculiarities lose significance.” (01/12/26)
https://reason.com/2026/01/12/trump-2-0-year-1-a-libertarian-nightmare/
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50) “Say Her Name” becomes radical rallying cry for Democrats’ mob rule
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“‘Say her name!’ From Portland to Philadelphia, the mantra is being used by politicians to fuel anger over the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. While many of us have noted that the shooting appears to fall within Supreme Court guidelines for the justified use of lethal force, there is an effort to make Good the personification of a so-called ‘resistance movement.’ Across the country, Democrats are holding ‘I am Spartacus’ moments, resembling a low-budget casting call for B-grade actors — chest-pounding calls for everything from defunding ICE to the arrest of law enforcement officers.” [editor’s note: Okay, I will … Ashley Babbitt – SAT] [additional editor’s note: As video in both cases establishes, Babbitt made the poor choice of engaging in violent criminality, while Good became a murder victim while fleeing violent criminals – TLK] (01/13/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-say-her-name-becomes-radical-rallying-cry-democrats-mob-rule
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51) McKinley’s Ghost
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“Trump loves to compare himself to the 19th-century populist president Andrew Jackson, who began the brutal ethnic cleansing of Native Americans from their land. But his presidency more resembles that of William McKinley at the turn of the 20th century. McKinley, like Trump, favored high tariffs as a means to protect certain businesses. Also, in the closing years of that century, McKinley initially was reluctant to go to war with Spain over Spanish repression of an off-and-on again (since the mid-1800s) rebellion in its Cuban colony that did not threaten U.S. security. (This is similar to Trump’s desire to avoid ‘forever wars’ — uch as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya – during his first term.) … Yet after the decisive U.S. victory over Spain in the Caribbean and the Pacific, McKinley willingly reveled in grabbing Spanish colonies as imperial booty.” (01/12/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/12/mckinleys-ghost/
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52) Can the Ayatollahs Fall?
Source: Quillette
by Benny Morris
“Amid the darkness of a communications blackout, Iranians are fighting for their freedom and the totalitarian theocracy under which they have lived since 1979 seems more threatened than ever before.” (01/12/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/01/12/can-the-ayatollahs-fall/
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53) Britain Does Not Have Long to Avoid Economic Collapse
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mitchell Palmer
“According to Ernest Hemingway, there are two ways to go bankrupt: ‘Gradually, then suddenly.’ It’s a lesson the UK would do well to remember. Rather than fixing our frayed social contract, successive governments have merely tinkered with the public finances, doing just enough to keep the ship afloat. This deck-chair rearranging cannot continue forever.” (01/12/26)
https://fee.org/articles/britain-does-not-have-long-to-avoid-economic-collapse/
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54) Largest Nurses Strike in New York City History Just Kicked Off
Source: In These Times
by Brad Reed
“Thousands of nurses are hitting the picket lines in what will be the largest nurses strike in the history of New York City. The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) on Monday announced that nearly 15,000 nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are going on strike after ’greedy hospital management at these wealthy private hospitals have given frontline nurses no other choice.’ The NYSNA posted a long list of sticking points on contract negotiations, including ‘“safe staffing for our patients, protections from workplace violence, and healthcare for frontline nurses.’ NYSNA president Nancy Hagans said that any patients in need of care at these hospitals should enter them, emphasizing that ‘going into the hospital to get the care you need is not crossing our strike line.'” (01/12/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/largest-nurses-strike-in-new-york-city-history-zohran-mamdani
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55) Trump Promotes Regulatory Relief — Not Subsidies — as the Solution to Obamacare
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Michael F Cannon
“States don’t need to wait for Congress. In Kentucky, Rep. Vanessa Grossl (R‑Georgetown) introduced legislation that would immediately let residents access Obama’s 2014 relief by removing barriers to Obamacare-exempt plans available in US territories.” (01/12/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/trump-promotes-regulatory-relief-not-subsidies-as-the-solution-to-obamacare/
_____ Today's Freedom Podcast and Video _____
56) The Fifth Column, 01/13/26
Source: The Fifth Column
“The Young Turks’ agent provocateur joins us for a totally civilized conversation about Iran, Israel, ICE, and the what happened to the great state of California.” (01/13/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/why-cant-we-be-friends-w-ana-kasparian
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57) The Good Fight, 01/13/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Goldstein debate whether our desperate need for significance is a flaw we should overcome — or an essential part of human dignity.” (01/13/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/rebecca-goldstein
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58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/13/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly check-in with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. If you need a reality check, Eric is a great source of clarity.” (01/13/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-rqxzz-1a18bee
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59) Chris Brunet on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Chris Brunet on the People Getting Rich Off of Trump’s Intervention in Venezuela.” (01/13/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/1-9-26-chris-brunet-on-the-people-getting-rich-off-of-trumps-intervention-in-venezuela/
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60) SolutionsWatch, 01/13/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“The Edward Institute: A Post-Mortem.” (01/13/26)
https://corbettreport.com/the-edward-institute-a-post-mortem/
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61) Advisory Opinions, 01/13/26
Source: The Dispatch
“The Conservative Warren Court of Today.” (01/13/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-conservative-warren-court-of-today/
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62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 01/13/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Airstrikes Against Iran ‘On the Table,’ IDF Destroys 2,500 Gaza Buildings Since ‘Truce,’ and More.” (01/13/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_grG-OHkM
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63) System Update, episode 564
Source: System Update
“The U.S. Does Not Want ‘Liberation’ for Iran; Plus: Jasmine Crockett Rejuvenates Identity Politics Apology Rituals from Bowen Yang.” (01/12/26)
https://rumble.com/v748vn8-the-u.s.-does-not-want-to-liberate-iran-plus-bowen-yang-jasmine-crockett-sy.html
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64) Free Speech Unmuted, 01/12/26
Source: Hoover Institution
“2025: The Year In Free Speech | Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer.” (01/12/26)
https://free-speech-unmuted.podbean.com/e/2025-the-year-in-free-speech-eugene-volokh-and-jane-bambauer-hoover-institution/
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/12/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Will Trump Use US Military For Iran ‘Regime Change’ Operation?” (01/12/26)
https://rumble.com/v748cec-will-trump-use-us-military-for-iran-regime-change-operation.html
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Today's Freedom News:
1) Iran: Regime warns of regional states of strikes on US bases if attacked
2) US House GOP seeks to hold Bill Clinton in contempt for skipping Epstein deposition
3) Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner “to meet Putin in Moscow for peace talks”
4) Bitcoin surges above $95,000 as ether, solana, cardano jump 8% on investor optimism
5) Scott Adams, 1957-2026
6) SCOTUS hears arguments in cases challenging transgender sports bans
7) China: Regime urges Canada to break from US influence as PM Carney visits Beijing
8) Ice Barbie Ends Temporary Protected Status for Somali Nationals, Sets Deadline to Leave US
9) South Korea: Prosecutor seeks death penalty for Yoon over martial law decree
10) Idiot pol introduces Greenland annexation bill in US House
11) Global central bankers defend Fed’s Powell after Trump threat
12) BBC seeks to dismiss Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit
13) Poland: Regime faces millions in EU fines as president vetoes Internet censorship bill
14) France: Deaths overtake births for first time since World War 2
15) NE: McKeon resigns from legislature amid accusations of inappropriate behavior
16) US: Judge rules firm can resume wind project halted by Trump
17) Argentina: Regime repays $2.5 billion bailout to US Treasury
18) Uganda: Regime Orders Two Rights Groups to Halt Work Days Before Election
19) MN: Tensions flare as protesters and gang thugs repeatedly square off
20) Trump Threatens New Tax Hike on American Buyers of Goods from Countries “Doing Business” with Iran
Today's Freedom Commentary:
21) Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
22) When Physicians Are Replaced with a Protocol
23) Germany’s Latest War on Freedom
24) Data Centers Might Break the Grid? Good, Something Needs To.
25) The Consequences of Another US Attack on Iran
26) We’re Always Told It: Everyone In The Empire-Targeted Nation Hates Their Government
27) Identification Is Error
28) What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood
29) Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade: 12 Years of Lies, Torture, Drones…. and Hope?
30) Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil
31) End Debanking by Removing Government from Reputation Regulation
32) The prime of tough-guy progressivism
33) Orders They Can and Should Refuse
34) Avoiding the Resource Trap in Post-Maduro Venezuela
35) We Shouldn’t Have to Watch a Woman’s Murder to Counter Government Lies
36) Judicial Nation-Building
37) Fed and Powell Under Fire, but Some Argue Independence Was Always an Illusion
38) A Conservative Requiem for Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead
39) How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
40) Will Eric Swalwell Be Kicked Off the Ballot?
41) The Ukraine Snare Still Beckons
42) Cancel Culture Goes MAGA
43) Déjà Vu at the Federal Reserve
44) The Monkey’s Paw Curls
45) Where Big Tech and Trump Are Demanding Tax Cuts and Deregulation
46) US trashed Somalia, can we really scold its people for coming here?
47) Immigration Lightning and Thunder in Minneapolis
48) Starlinking Iranian Protest
49) Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare
50) “Say Her Name” becomes radical rallying cry for Democrats’ mob rule
51) McKinley’s Ghost
52) Can the Ayatollahs Fall?
53) Britain Does Not Have Long to Avoid Economic Collapse
54) Largest Nurses Strike in New York City History Just Kicked Off
55) Trump Promotes Regulatory Relief — Not Subsidies — as the Solution to Obamacare
Today's Freedom Podcast and Video:
56) The Fifth Column, 01/13/26
57) The Good Fight, 01/13/26
58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/13/26
59) Chris Brunet on The Scott Horton Show
60) SolutionsWatch, 01/13/26
61) Advisory Opinions, 01/13/26
62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 01/13/26
63) System Update, episode 564
64) Free Speech Unmuted, 01/12/26
65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/12/26
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1) Iran: Regime warns of regional states of strikes on US bases if attacked
Source: Reuters
“Tehran has warned U.S. allies in the Middle East it will strike U.S. bases on their soil if Washington attacks Iran, a senior Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, following President Donald Trump’s threats to intervene in support of protesters. The death toll from Iran’s unrest climbed to almost 2,600, a rights group said, as the clerical establishment seeks to quell nationwide protests posing one of the biggest challenges to their rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. … Trump has said military action is among the options he is weighing to punish Iran over the crackdown.” (01/14/26)
https://archive.is/EuMrB
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2) US House GOP seeks to hold Bill Clinton in contempt for skipping Epstein deposition
Source: NBC News
“The Republican-led House Oversight Committee announced Tuesday that it will seek to hold former President Bill Clinton in contempt of Congress after he failed to appear for a deposition as part of the panel’s probe into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. ‘As a result of Bill Clinton not showing up for his lawful subpoena, which again was voted unanimously by the committee in a bipartisan manner, we will move next week in the House Oversight Committee markup to hold former President Clinton in contempt of Congress,’ Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill. The committee had scheduled a deposition with Clinton for Tuesday morning, as well as a deposition with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for Wednesday. In a letter to Comer, the Clintons said they didn’t plan to appear for the depositions.” (01/13/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-gop-seeks-hold-clinton-contempt-skipping-epstein-deposition-rcna253780
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3) Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner “to meet Putin in Moscow for peace talks”
Source: Independent [UK]
“Donald Trump’s son in law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow for another round of peace talks with Vladimir Putin, according to a report. Sources told Bloomberg that the two envoys could meet with the Russian President this month amid faltering efforts by the US to negotiate an end to the conflict. A date for the meeting has not been agreed. … A flurry of diplomatic activity driven by Trump has failed to yield a peace agreement, with Moscow refusing to budge on its maximalist demands and Kyiv continuing to seek security guarantees from Washington.” (01/14/26)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-live-putin-trump-zelensky-news-b2900083.html
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4) Bitcoin surges above $95,000 as ether, solana, cardano jump 8% on investor optimism
Source: CoinDesk
“Crypto markets ripped higher on Wednesday as easing U.S. inflation and renewed political uncertainty around the Federal Reserve reignited demand for scarce, non-sovereign assets. Bitcoin jumped more than 4% over the past 24 hours, breaking above $95,000 for the first time in a week and pushing toward the upper end of its January range. Ether outperformed, climbing over 7% to around $3,330, while major tokens, such as Solana’s SOL, Cardano’s ADA, and BNB Chain’s BNB, moved as much as 9% higher.” (01/14/26)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/01/14/bitcoin-surges-above-usd95-000-eth-sol-ada-up-8-as-risk-appetite-snaps-back
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5) Scott Adams, 1957-2026
Source: Variety
“Scott Adams, creator of the ‘Dilbert’ comic strip, who became controversial for his right-wing statements, has died following a battle with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. … Born in Windham, New York in 1957, Adams started drawing comics at age 6, citing the ‘Peanuts’ comics as an early inspiration. … By 1994, ‘Dilbert’ was syndicated in more than 400 newspapers, and in 1995, Adams left Pacific Bell to become a full-time cartoonist.” (01/13/26)
https://variety.com/2026/artisans/people-news/scott-adams-dead-dilbert-creator-1236630162/
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6) SCOTUS hears arguments in cases challenging transgender sports bans
Source: CNN
“The nation’s highest court heard more than three hours of arguments in two cases regarding state bans on transgender students playing on sports teams that are consistent with their gender identity. Chief Justice John Roberts has signaled his skepticism for what he called transgender ‘exception’ for sex-based laws. He also said he the blockbuster 2020 precedent that protects gay and transgender employees from discrimination doesn’t apply to the sports cases, signaling that he is prepared to undermine a central argument from LGBTQ advocates. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that the court cannot look past what he characterized as the ‘harm’ that transgender-inclusive sports policies impose on cisgender women and girl’s sports teams.” (01/13/26)
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/supreme-court-arguments-transgender-athletes-01-13-26
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7) China: Regime urges Canada to break from US influence as PM Carney visits Beijing
Source: Associated Press
“As Canadian leader Mark Carney arrives in China on Wednesday, his hosts see an opportunity to peel the longtime U.S. ally away from their rival, at least a bit. China’s state media is calling on the Canadian government to set a foreign policy path independent of the United States — what it calls ‘strategic autonomy.’ Canada has long been one of America’s closest allies, geographically and otherwise. But Beijing is hoping that President Donald Trump’s economic aggression — and, now, military action — against other countries will erode that longstanding relationship.” (01/13/26)
https://apnews.com/article/china-canada-carney-trump-strategic-autonomy-66f1277efa034750f0fd817b3a69bebb
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8) Ice Barbie Ends Temporary Protected Status for Somali Nationals, Sets Deadline to Leave US
Source: Newsweek
“Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the U.S. is ending Temporary Protected Status for Somali nationals and set a March 17 deadline for them to leave the country. The move came without an official announcement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or a notice in the Federal Register on Tuesday morning, with the latter generally required to officially terminate TPS. DHS later confirmed the decision to Newsweek but did not provide further background.” (01/13/26)
https://www.newsweek.com/tps-somali-nationals-noem-dhs-trump-minnesota-11351039
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9) South Korea: Prosecutor seeks death penalty for Yoon over martial law decree
Source: The Hill
“An independent counsel on Tuesday demanded the death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his short-lived imposition of martial law in December 2024. Yoon, who was removed from office last April and is in jail, faces eight trials over various criminal charges related to his martial law debacle and other scandals related to his time in office. Charges that he directed a rebellion are the most significant ones. Independent counsel Cho Eun-suk’s team requested the Seoul Central District Court to sentence Yoon to death, according to the court, which is expected to deliver a verdict in February. Experts say the court will likely sentence Yoon to life in prison. South Korea hasn’t executed anyone since 1997, and local courts rarely issue the death penalty in recent years.” (01/13/26)
https://thehill.com/homenews/ap/ap-international/ap-independent-counsel-seeks-death-sentence-for-ex-south-korean-leader-yoon-over-martial-law-imposition/
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10) Idiot pol introduces Greenland annexation bill in US House
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A Republican congressman from Florida introduced a bill on Monday to annex Greenland and make it the 51st US state as President Donald Trump threatens to seize the autonomous Danish territory. Trump has said the United States will take Greenland ‘one way or the other,’ floating the idea of buying the territory or taking it by force, despite strong pushback from Denmark, a Nato ally. Representative Randy Fine said his new legislation would authorise Trump ‘to take whatever steps necessary to annex or acquire Greenland.'” (01/13/26)
https://archive.is/PLLrb
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11) Global central bankers defend Fed’s Powell after Trump threat
Source: Reuters
“The chiefs of many of the world’s major central banks issued a joint statement in support of Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday, after the Trump administration threatened him with a criminal indictment. Powell is at the centre of a U.S. administration’s criminal probe about the renovation of the Fed’s headquarters, which he called a ‘pretext’ to win presidential influence over interest rates. The heads of the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and eight other institutions said Powell had acted with integrity and that central bank independence was crucial for keeping prices and financial markets stable.” (01/13/26)
https://archive.is/ldNy4
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12) BBC seeks to dismiss Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit
Source: ABC News
“The BBC plans to ask a court to throw out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the British broadcaster, court papers show. Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim, filed in a Florida federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices. … The broadcaster has apologized to Trump over the edit of the Jan. 6 speech. But the publicly funded BBC rejects claims it defamed him. The furor triggered the resignations of the BBC’s top executive and its head of news. Papers filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Miami say the BBC will file a motion to dismiss the case on March 17 on the basis that the court lacks jurisdiction and Trump failed to state a claim.” (01/13/26)
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/bbc-seeks-dismiss-trumps-10b-defamation-lawsuit-florida-129157222
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13) Poland: Regime faces millions in EU fines as president vetoes Internet censorship bill
Source: Politico
“A clash between Poland’s right-wing president and its centrist ruling coalition over the European Union’s flagship social media law is putting the country further at risk of multimillion euro fines from Brussels. President Karol Nawrocki is holding up a bill that would implement the EU’s Digital Services Act, a tech law that allows regulators to police how social media firms moderate content. Nawrocki, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, said in a statement that the law would ‘give control of content on the internet to officials subordinate to the government, not to independent courts.’ The government coalition led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Nawrocki’s rival, warned this further exposed them to the risk of EU fines as high as €9.5 million.” (01/13/26)
https://www.politico.eu/article/polish-president-karol-nawrocki-tech-bill-veto-eu-fine/
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14) France: Deaths overtake births for first time since World War 2
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“France recorded more deaths than births in 2025 for the first time since the end of World War II, a development that erodes its long-held demographic advantage over other European Union nations, official figures showed on Tuesday. The national statistics institute INSEE reported 651,000 deaths last year and 645,000 births, which have collapsed in number since the global COVID pandemic. France has traditionally had stronger demographics than most of Europe, but an aging population and falling birthrates show it is not immune to the demographic crunch straining public finances across the continent.” (01/13/26)
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260113-deaths-overtake-births-france-first-time-since-world-war-ii
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15) NE: McKeon resigns from legislature amid accusations of inappropriate behavior
Source: SFGate
“State Sen. Dan McKeon tearfully announced his resignation from the Nebraska Legislature on Tuesday ahead of scheduled debate to expel him from the body after accusations that he made a sexually charged comment to a legislative staffer and touched her inappropriately during a session-end party last year. McKeon, a Republican from rural south-central Nebraska who had served only a year before his resignation, announced his resignation and apologized on the legislative floor just minutes before debate that would certainly have included harsh condemnation of McKeon. ‘My words and actions were careless, regardless of the intent,’ McKeon said. ‘I accept my responsibility for the impact of my words and my actions. This past year has humbled me. It requires reflection, listening and learning. Accountability is not only acknowledging my mistake but committing to grow from it. I take that responsibility seriously.'” (01/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/tearful-nebraska-state-sen-mckeon-resigns-amid-21292637.php
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16) US: Judge rules firm can resume wind project halted by Trump
Source: CNBC
“Shares of Danish renewables giant Orsted rose nearly 5% on Tuesday morning, shortly after a U.S. judge cleared the company to resume work on its nearly finished Revolution Wind project. … The White House halted five major offshore wind developments at the end of last year, including Orsted’s project off the coast of Rhode Island. Officials cited national security concerns identified by the Pentagon as the reason for the suspension. Orsted filed a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s decision earlier this month, saying that the lease suspension would cause ‘substantial harm’ to the Revolution Wind project. In a hearing on Monday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said the Court should be ‘very skeptical of the government’s true motives’ for putting a stop to the project, according to Reuters news agency.” (01/13/26)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/13/orsted-trump-wind-power-revolution-wind.html
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17) Argentina: Regime repays $2.5 billion bailout to US Treasury
Source: United Press International
“Argentina has repaid $2.5 billion to the U.S. Treasury, returning funds it received in October under a $20 billion currency swap agreement, authorities from both countries said. Argentina’s central bank said in a statement the repayment was completed Friday, using resources from multilateral financial institutions, without naming them. Some analysts said part of the funds may have come from the Bank for International Settlements, based in Basel, Switzerland, though there was no official confirmation. Argentina only used $2.5 billion from the swap because the credit line functioned as an emergency backstop, not as a loan that had to be fully drawn.” (01/13/26)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/01/13/latam-argentina-repay-united-states/6061768324855/
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18) Uganda: Regime Orders Two Rights Groups to Halt Work Days Before Election
Source: US News & World Report
“Uganda’s government has ordered two local rights groups to halt their work days before Thursday’s election, which the United Nations Human Rights Office says is taking place in an atmosphere of repression and intimidation. The authorities have detained hundreds of opposition supporters, the UN agency had said in a report in November, ahead of the January 15 election in which President Yoweri Museveni, 81, is looking to extend his four-decade rule. Museveni, who came to power in 1986 after leading a five-year rebellion, is Africa’s third-longest ruling head of state. He has changed the constitution twice to remove age and term limits, and his dominance of Ugandan institutions means there is little prospect of an election upset in the East African country of 46 million, political analysts say.” (01/13/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-01-13/uganda-orders-two-rights-groups-to-halt-work-days-before-election
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19) MN: Tensions flare as protesters and gang thugs repeatedly square off
Source: SFGate
“Federal officers dropped tear gas and sprayed eye irritant at activists in Minneapolis on Tuesday as students walked out of a suburban school in protest at the Trump administration’s bold immigration sweeps. The government crackdown is next headed to a federal court where Minnesota and two mayors are asking a judge to immediately suspend the operation. No hearing has been set on the request. Gas clouds filled a Minneapolis street near where Renee Good was [murdered] by an immigration agent last week. A man scrubbed his eyes with snow and screamed for help as agents in an unmarked Jeep sprayed an orange irritant and drove away. It’s common for people to boo, taunt and blow orange whistles when they spot heavily armed agents passing through in unmarked vehicles or walking the streets. ‘Who doesn’t have a whistle?’ a man with a bag of them yelled.” (01/13/25)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/tensions-flare-in-minnesota-as-protesters-and-21291914.php
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20) Trump Threatens New Tax Hike on American Buyers of Goods from Countries “Doing Business” with Iran
Source: Time
“As Donald Trump mulls whether or not the U.S. will intervene militarily in Iran in response to the deadliest anti-regime protests and riots there in years, the President is happy to employ one of his ‘favorite’ words to put pressure on Tehran: tariffs. ‘Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America,’ Trump posted on Truth Social Monday night. ‘This Order is final and conclusive.’ It’s unclear what the President meant by ‘doing business,’ and which countries the latest policy actually covers. The White House has not yet published any information about the new tariff policy or what legal authority it relies on, nor did the White House immediately respond to TIME’s request for clarification.” (01/13/26)
https://time.com/7345774/trump-iran-tariffs-trade-china-india-uae-turkiye-brazil/
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21) Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
Source: The UnPopulist
by Shikha Dalmia
“Many government agencies have good intentions but can produce bad outcomes. However, there is one that has bad intentions and produces evil outcomes: Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. In this Trump administration, as in the previous one, its purpose is to hunt down and eject people whose “crime” is that they can’t obtain a piece of paper from the government authorizing them to live and work in America. … America got along just fine for 227 years till ICE, the monster child of the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, was spawned 23 years ago. It should never have been created in the first place, but now that Trump has turned it into a rights-trampling, rogue agency that shoots first and asks questions later, as the killing of Renee Good, an American citizen and a mother of three, demonstrates, it deserves to be shut down.” (01/13/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ice-it-is-a-threat-to-americans
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22) When Physicians Are Replaced with a Protocol
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joseph Varon
“Medicine is defined not by the mechanical execution of tasks, but by the assignment of responsibility when outcomes are unfavorable. Writing a prescription is straightforward; accepting responsibility for its consequences — particularly when considering comorbidities, social context, patient values, or incomplete information — is far more complex. Throughout my career, this responsibility has continuously resided with a human who could be questioned, challenged, corrected, and held accountable. When Dr. Smith makes an error, the family knows whom to contact, ensuring a direct line to human accountability. No algorithm, regardless of sophistication, can fulfill this role. The primary risk is not technological, but regulatory and philosophical.” (01/13/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/when-physicians-are-replaced-with-a-protocol/
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23) Germany’s Latest War on Freedom
Source: Libertarian Institute
by Jim Bovard
“‘There is no censorship here in Germany,’ according to Steffen Meyer, a top spokesman for the German government. In reality, Germans have freedom of speech except for ideas that politicians and government contractors and nonprofit activists don’t like. Germany is providing a road map for freedom can be squashed throughout the western world. Germany was the scene of some of the twentieth century’s worst tyranny but today’s German leaders have only noble intentions for oppression.” (01/13/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/germanys-latest-war-on-freedom
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24) Data Centers Might Break the Grid? Good, Something Needs To.
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“As my kids might say (if they bothered themselves with such issues rather than just plugging their bazillion game consoles into the wall and ignoring such things while raising my electric bill) ;grids are SOOOOOO 20th century.’ The idea of running power lines all over God’s green acre made a certain amount of sense in the 1930s. It makes no sense at all now. … The only real beneficiaries of continued reliance on centralized generation and large-scale ‘grids’ are the utilities which operate those power plants and those grids. They’re holding us back from what could be an era of cheap, clean, reliable energy.” (01/13/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20267
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25) The Consequences of Another US Attack on Iran
Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Every time that the U.S. threatens or bombs the non-nuclear weapons state Iran, it vindicates North Korea’s decision to build its own deterrent. If there are any other would-be proliferators contemplating their next steps, they would have strong incentives to imitate North Korea and avoid making the same mistakes as Iran. That is one enduring legacy of our government’s incredibly awful Iran policy. The other is that our government’s policy has given the Iranian government every reason to acquire nuclear weapons despite its many formal commitments to reject that option.” (01/13/26)
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-consequences-of-another-us-attack
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26) We’re Always Told It: Everyone In The Empire-Targeted Nation Hates Their Government
Source: Caitlin Johnstone
by Caitlin Johnstone
“The regime change supporter’s favorite trick is to pretend the people in the targeted country are an ideological monolith. All Iranians hate their government, all Venezuelans wanted freedom from Maduro, etc. They do this constantly. Thing is, it requires them to dehumanize the very population they’re claiming to care about. They need to pretend the people in the empire-targeted nation are these weird creatures with some kind of Pluribus-style alien brain virus that makes them all think the same as each other, unlike any other human population they themselves have ever encountered. You have never been to a country where everyone has the same attitude toward their government. Neither have I. That would be freakish and abnormal. That’s not how humans are.” (01/13/25)
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/01/13/were-always-told-that-everyone-in-the-empire-targeted-nation-hates-their-government/
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27) Identification Is Error
Source: The Findings Substack
by Paul Rosenberg
“Once we see ourselves as part of a group, we callously judge outsiders and rally to the cause of foolish insiders. Have you not noticed this in yourself? Once we see ourselves as part of a political whatever, part of a social whatever … it begins tainting what we think and feel. Left to continue, it poisons us against other identities. I’m not talking about simple, cooperative groups, mind you: those we feel free to jump in and out of; there’s not much identification involved. In practice, identification produces a free-for-all, each identity battling the others for whatever can be fought over.” (01/13/26)
https://thefindings.substack.com/p/identification-is-error
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28) What to Do if ICE Invades Your Neighborhood
Source: Wired
by Lily Hay Newman, Maddy Varner, & Matt Burgess
“If federal immigration agents are coming to your area — or have already arrived — you may be frantically making plans to lay low at home, or perhaps grabbing your whistle and lacing up your sneakers to join a neighborhood watch. It’s a terrifying situation for undocumented residents and all American immigrants, and the climate has even become fraught for US citizens too. There are no simple answers for how to protect yourself and others in every scenario, but there are frameworks you can use for weighing your options.” (01/13/26)
https://archive.is/UTGRT
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29) Reflections on a Low, Dishonest Decade: 12 Years of Lies, Torture, Drones…. and Hope?
Source: TomDispatch
by Rebecca Gordon
“‘Tom, I got nothin.’’ That’s all I wanted to say to Tom Engelhardt, the kindly and incisive editor of TomDispatch.com. He’d called to check in and see what I was planning for my next piece. I wanted to tell him, ‘I’m staring at starvation and genocide, the destruction of American democracy and the rule of law, along with the ongoing incineration of our planet. I’m a damp ball of grief, and I’ve got nothing useful to say about any of it.’ Furthermore, I wanted to add, ‘Anything I could say about the present disaster has already been said comprehensively and better by someone else.’ That ‘someone else’ includes myriad excellent journalists who have departed (voluntarily or otherwise) from a mainstream media that has repeatedly acquiesced to Trump, succumbing to a malaise of self-censorship at flagship newspapers like the Washington Post and even the New York Times.” (01/13/25)
https://tomdispatch.com/reflections-on-a-low-dishonest-decade/
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30) Candid Imperialism: Trump, Racketeering and Venezuelan Oil
Source: CounterPunch
by Binoy Kampmark
“After retiring from active service, [General Smedley Butler] was frank about what his role had been. Professing to being a ‘racketeer’ and ‘gangster for capitalism,’ he went on to explain how: ‘I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Boys to collect revenues in. I helped the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street.’ That was just a selection. With President Donald Trump in power, we do not need a Butler to give the game away or expose any frightful cabal. The empire is out of the closet, bolshie, bright and more thieving than ever.” (01/13/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/13/candid-imperialism-trump-racketeering-and-venezuelan-oil/
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31) End Debanking by Removing Government from Reputation Regulation
Source: Cato Institute
by Nicholas Anthony
“No government should pressure a bank to cut off customers innocent of any wrongdoing. Yet that is what happened with Operation Choke Point under the Obama administration and that is what happened again with ‘Operation Choke Point 2.0’ under the Biden administration. Even today, countless customers are debanked because the laws and regulations in place have made banks too cautious. It’s time to bring governmental debanking to an end.” (01/13/26)
https://www.cato.org/commentary/end-debanking-removing-government-reputation-regulation
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32) The prime of tough-guy progressivism
Source: Washington Examiner
by Byron York
“On Saturday, Larry Krasner, the elected Democratic district attorney of Philadelphia, posted a photo of himself on social media. It was a black-and-white picture of a stern-looking Krasner in a dark suit, one hand to his sunglasses. At the bottom of the photo, in all caps, was ‘FAFO’, which of course stands for ‘f*** around and find out.’ The accompanying message said, ‘To [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and the National Guard: if you commit crimes in Philadelphia, we will charge you and hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law.’ Made in the context of the Minneapolis shooting, the post was part of a new wave of tough-guy progressivism in which state and local Democratic officials around the country apparently hope to intimidate the federal government over the enforcement of federal immigration law.” (01/13/25)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/4415211/prime-tough-guy-progressivism-minneapolis-ice-shooting/
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33) Orders They Can and Should Refuse
Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin Carroll
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth censured Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain, last week for truthfully instructing service members in November that they ‘can refuse illegal orders.’ If anything, Kelly — who on Monday sued Hegseth for violating his First and Fifth Amendment rights –put the matter too mildly: Troops must disobey — and also report — illegal orders. … Last week, in the wake of the U.S. military’s capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump spoke generally of his desire to obtain Greenland, while deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller and press secretary Karoline Leavitt explicitly raised the possibility of the United States seizing territory belonging to our ally Denmark by force. Such orders are precisely the kind that our military must refuse to obey.” (01/13/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/greenland-trump-military-illegal-orders/
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34) Avoiding the Resource Trap in Post-Maduro Venezuela
Source: EconLog
by Leonida Zelmanovitz
“The recent removal of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela’s presidency is a dramatic development after more than two decades of socialist experimentation under Hugo Chávez and Maduro, characterized by expropriation, macroeconomic mismanagement, and political repression. Although there is much uncertainty about the economic and political future of Venezuela, economics can offer some guidance — and warnings. One such lesson has to do with the dangerous temptation to base economic recovery solely on the oil sector. Venezuela’s prospects depend critically on the quality of its institutional and policy choices from now on.” (01/13/26)
https://www.econlib.org/econlog/avoiding-the-resource-trap-in-post-maduro-venezuela
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35) We Shouldn’t Have to Watch a Woman’s Murder to Counter Government Lies
Source: Common Dreams
by Crystal Coache
“None of us should have to watch videos of our fellow citizens and neighbors being killed to get factual information about what happened. Yet the way President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, the secretary of Homeland Security, described the moment an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed a 37-year-old mom and American citizen in broad daylight was so blatantly far off from what happened that I fear we will need to keep seeing for ourselves. I never watch videos of people being killed on purpose. Yet, I clicked on a video of a woman in Minnesota in her SUV who seemed to be in a heated verbal exchange with an ICE agent. I saw her try to pull away from an agent who was reaching into her car, only to be shot at close range as she was trying to leave.” (01/13/25)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/renee-good-murder-lies
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36) Judicial Nation-Building
Source: Law & Liberty
by Sam Negus
“The Early Republic’s maritime jurisprudence is even more relevant given the immense power of the modern executive.” (01/13/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/judicial-nation-building/
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37) Fed and Powell Under Fire, but Some Argue Independence Was Always an Illusion
Source: Bitcoin.com
by Jamie Redman
“Plenty of people think U.S. President Donald Trump’s verbal shots at the central bank, complete with name-calling aimed at Powell, amount to pressure on the Fed’s independence. According to a Fox Business report, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, said Trump’s plan was to ‘install another sock puppet to complete his corrupt takeover of America’s central bank.’ Still, some voices are cutting through the noise, arguing that the idea of an independent U.S. Federal Reserve is merely fiction.” (01/13/26)
https://news.bitcoin.com/fed-and-powell-under-fire-but-some-argue-independence-was-always-an-illusion/
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38) A Conservative Requiem for Bob Weir and the Grateful Dead
Source: The American Conservative
by Ann Coulter
“The Grateful Dead was supremely American. No other nation on earth could have produced music like this, a synthesis of blues, R&B, country, folk, rock, even a little jazz. Nowhere else would a band origin story be the following: The 16-year-old Weir and friends were bumming around Palo Alto on New Year’s Eve 1963, heard the sound of a banjo, and followed it to a music store where they happened upon Jerry Garcia waiting for his banjo students to show up. They never did, so Bobby and his friends picked up some instruments and played jug music with Jerry into the night. It was so much fun, Jerry and Bobby decided to form a band called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, which became the Warlocks, and then the Grateful Dead. Find that in Japan — find it in England.” (01/13/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/a-conservative-requiem-for-bob-weir-and-the-grateful-dead/
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39) How Money Laundering Became a Catch-All Excuse to Bully and Surveil
Source: The Daily Economy
by Christopher Lingle & Emile Phaneuf III
“The term ‘money laundering’ was coined after the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, yet it was not formalized into law with any federal offense until the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. These days, law enforcement and regulatory agencies such as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) typically use the term alongside other terms that imply an obvious victim needing protection: ‘terrorist financing,’ ‘human trafficking.’ This is meant to provoke a strong reaction against money laundering as a practice. One problem with the association of money laundering with these other terms that obviously justify a strong response to prevent them is that money laundering does not, in itself, always have a clear victim.” (01/13/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-money-laundering-became-a-catch-all-excuse-to-bully-and-surveil-americans/
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40) Will Eric Swalwell Be Kicked Off the Ballot?
Source: Town Hall
by William Marshall
“A largely ignored, but interesting, development has arisen in the upcoming California gubernatorial contest. It is a viable petition that has been filed with the California Secretary of State that could potentially see Rep. Eric Swalwell, contending for the Democratic nomination in the governor’s race, thrown off the 2026 ballot. The legal case has been brought by California resident, documentarian, and indefatigable investigative reporter Joel Gilbert. Gilbert has been doing yeoman’s work for Gateway Pundit in researching and reporting on Swalwell’s apparent gross misrepresentations in various official documents that are shocking in their brazenness. When considered in light of his aspirations for still higher office, you have to be impressed by Swalwell’s chutzpah, a defining characteristic of politicians on the left.” (01/13/25)
https://townhall.com/columnists/williammarshall/2026/01/13/will-eric-swalwell-be-killed-off-the-ballot-n2669366
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41) The Ukraine Snare Still Beckons
Source: Antiwar.com
by Ted Galen Carpenter
“Despite the widespread expectation that President Donald Trump would end Washington’s entanglement in NATO’s proxy war using Ukraine against Russia, it is increasingly evident that the fundamental features of U.S. policy remain unaltered. Trump personally has sent an array of mixed signals about his intentions. Although he has pressured Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to accept the reality that Kyiv must be willing to make territorial concessions to Moscow in any peace accord, he also has been receptive to Zelensky’s demand that Ukraine be given reliable ‘security guarantees’ in such a settlement. Indeed, during the recent summit meeting between the two leaders, the main point of disagreement appeared to be that Zelensky wanted a commitment lasting 50 years, whereas Trump was prepared to offer only 15 years.” (01/13/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/ted_galen_carpenter/2026/01/12/the-ukraine-snare-still-beckons/
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42) Cancel Culture Goes MAGA
Source: Liberal Currents
by Guillaume AW Attia
“MAGA’s campaign of government censorship and repression is an assault on fundamental free speech values.” (01/13/26)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/cancel-culture-goes-maga/
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43) Déjà Vu at the Federal Reserve
Source: Macroeconomic Policy News
by David Beckworth
“The FOMC brought quantitative tightening (QT) to an end at its December 2025 meeting. In doing so, it reaffirmed something that has become increasingly clear over the past decade: the structural size of the Fed’s balance sheet keeps ratcheting higher after each round of QE. It all feels a bit like déjà vu. As Bill Nelson noted, the Fed now believes it needs roughly $3 trillion in reserve balances to operate its floor system, implying a minimum securities portfolio of about $6 1/2 trillion once currency in circulation and the Treasury General Account are taken into account. What stands out is not just the size of that number, but its direction.” (01/13/26)
https://macroeconomicpolicynexus.substack.com/p/deja-vu-at-the-federal-reserve
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44) The Monkey’s Paw Curls
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“Isn’t ‘may you get exactly what you asked for’ one of those ancient Chinese curses? Since we last spoke, prediction markets have gone to the moon, rising from millions to billions in monthly volume. … Degenerate gambling is bad. Insofar as prediction markets have acted as a Trojan Horse to enable it, this is bad. Insofar as my advocacy helped make this possible, I am bad. I can only plead that it didn’t really seem plausible, back in 2021, that a presidential administration would keep all normal restrictions on sports gambling but also let prediction markets do it as much as they wanted. If only there had been some kind of decentralized forecasting tool that could have given me a canonical probability on this outcome! Still, it might seem that, whatever the degenerate gamblers are doing, we at least have some interesting data.” (01/13/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/mantic-monday-the-monkeys-paw-curls
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45) Where Big Tech and Trump Are Demanding Tax Cuts and Deregulation
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Last month, former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other officials with European nongovernmental organizations were barred from entering the U.S., in what was described as retaliation for ‘censorship’ of U.S. tech platforms in Europe. In reality, it was the latest in a campaign to force the EU to withdraw two regulatory laws, the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act, that U.S. tech firms don’t like. The laws require tech companies to take down illegal content on their platforms, restrict the transfer of user data to multiple platforms run by the same companies, refrain from ‘steering’ users toward their own products, and allow for fair competition in app stores and interoperable social media sites. The travel ban was only the latest in the Trump administration’s special pleading for Big Tech, using threatened tariffs and leverage in trade deals to try to force changes to the EU’s sovereign laws.” (01/13/25)
https://prospect.org/2026/01/13/trump-big-tech-tax-cuts-deregulation-europe-digital-networks-act/
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46) US trashed Somalia, can we really scold its people for coming here?
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Ahmed Ibrahim
“The relatively small Somali community in the U.S., estimated at 260,000, has lately been receiving national attention thanks to a massive fraud scandal in Minnesota and the resulting vitriol directed at them by President Trump. Trump’s targeting of Somalis long preceded the current allegations of fraud, going back to his first presidential campaign in 2016. A central theme of Trump’s anti-Somali rancor is that they come from a war-torn country without an effective centralized state, which in Trump’s reasoning speaks to their quality as a people, and therefore, their ability to contribute to American society. It is worth reminding ourselves, however, that Somalia’s state collapse and political instability is as much a result of imperial interventions, including from the U.S., as anything else.” (01/13/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/somali-people-in-the-us/
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47) Immigration Lightning and Thunder in Minneapolis
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“People across America are lamenting the killing of a nice woman in Minneapolis named Renee Nicole Good at the hands of an ICE agent named Jonathan E Ross. Ross was standing on the side of the car Good was driving when he fired three shots at her and killed her. After the killing, someone exclaimed, ‘Fucking bitch.’ Predictably, federal officials have labeled Good a “terrorist” and have immediately rallied to the defense of the ICE killer. Make no mistake about it: No matter the facts of the case, there will be no criminal prosecution of Ross. Under the immigration police state under which we live, ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, military personnel, and other immigration-enforcement goons wield omnipotent authority to kill anyone they want. That’s the type of country in which we all live. Everyone just needs to get used to it.” (01/13/26)
https://www.fff.org/2026/01/13/immigration-lightning-and-thunder/
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48) Starlinking Iranian Protest
Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob
“In June 2025, Elon Musk helped protesters in Iran by providing free access to his Starlink satellite service. The service restored a means of communicating with each other and the rest of the world that had been blocked when the Iranian government shut down the country’s Internet. The mullahs tend to do that when the pressure on their regime reaches a certain pitch. As has certainly happened again over the last few weeks. Some 500 protesters have been killed so far, according to the group Human Rights Activists in Iran, as the unrest spreads. Again, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s Internet. Is Musk stepping in?” (01/13/26)
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/01/13/starlinking-iranian-protest/
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49) Trump 2.0, Year 1: A Libertarian Nightmare
Source: Reason
by Brian Doherty
“A decade into his capture of our political attention spans, there is no longer anything new that can be said about Donald Trump in a big-picture way about his nature as a person or his larger meaning as a political phenomenon. His audacity, so bold at first, and so lubricated in his second go-round, can no longer shock or surprise; his crudeness, so initially colorful, just fades into the dark background of his actions; his bottomless sea of toddlerish willfulness and grievance, so curious and compelling in 2015–16, becomes as notable as water to a fish. We all swim in Trump now, surrounded by his turbulent, turbid murk, descending to fathomless depths, his surface marking the end of what we can know. Near the end of the first full year of his second administration, Donald Trump has demonstrated his core authoritarianism so completely and consistently that his personal character and comportment peculiarities lose significance.” (01/12/26)
https://reason.com/2026/01/12/trump-2-0-year-1-a-libertarian-nightmare/
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50) “Say Her Name” becomes radical rallying cry for Democrats’ mob rule
Source: Fox News Forum
by Jonathan Turley
“‘Say her name!’ From Portland to Philadelphia, the mantra is being used by politicians to fuel anger over the shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. While many of us have noted that the shooting appears to fall within Supreme Court guidelines for the justified use of lethal force, there is an effort to make Good the personification of a so-called ‘resistance movement.’ Across the country, Democrats are holding ‘I am Spartacus’ moments, resembling a low-budget casting call for B-grade actors — chest-pounding calls for everything from defunding ICE to the arrest of law enforcement officers.” [editor’s note: Okay, I will … Ashley Babbitt – SAT] [additional editor’s note: As video in both cases establishes, Babbitt made the poor choice of engaging in violent criminality, while Good became a murder victim while fleeing violent criminals – TLK] (01/13/25)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-say-her-name-becomes-radical-rallying-cry-democrats-mob-rule
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51) McKinley’s Ghost
Source: Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
“Trump loves to compare himself to the 19th-century populist president Andrew Jackson, who began the brutal ethnic cleansing of Native Americans from their land. But his presidency more resembles that of William McKinley at the turn of the 20th century. McKinley, like Trump, favored high tariffs as a means to protect certain businesses. Also, in the closing years of that century, McKinley initially was reluctant to go to war with Spain over Spanish repression of an off-and-on again (since the mid-1800s) rebellion in its Cuban colony that did not threaten U.S. security. (This is similar to Trump’s desire to avoid ‘forever wars’ — uch as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya – during his first term.) … Yet after the decisive U.S. victory over Spain in the Caribbean and the Pacific, McKinley willingly reveled in grabbing Spanish colonies as imperial booty.” (01/12/26)
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/01/12/mckinleys-ghost/
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52) Can the Ayatollahs Fall?
Source: Quillette
by Benny Morris
“Amid the darkness of a communications blackout, Iranians are fighting for their freedom and the totalitarian theocracy under which they have lived since 1979 seems more threatened than ever before.” (01/12/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/01/12/can-the-ayatollahs-fall/
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53) Britain Does Not Have Long to Avoid Economic Collapse
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Mitchell Palmer
“According to Ernest Hemingway, there are two ways to go bankrupt: ‘Gradually, then suddenly.’ It’s a lesson the UK would do well to remember. Rather than fixing our frayed social contract, successive governments have merely tinkered with the public finances, doing just enough to keep the ship afloat. This deck-chair rearranging cannot continue forever.” (01/12/26)
https://fee.org/articles/britain-does-not-have-long-to-avoid-economic-collapse/
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54) Largest Nurses Strike in New York City History Just Kicked Off
Source: In These Times
by Brad Reed
“Thousands of nurses are hitting the picket lines in what will be the largest nurses strike in the history of New York City. The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) on Monday announced that nearly 15,000 nurses at Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are going on strike after ’greedy hospital management at these wealthy private hospitals have given frontline nurses no other choice.’ The NYSNA posted a long list of sticking points on contract negotiations, including ‘“safe staffing for our patients, protections from workplace violence, and healthcare for frontline nurses.’ NYSNA president Nancy Hagans said that any patients in need of care at these hospitals should enter them, emphasizing that ‘going into the hospital to get the care you need is not crossing our strike line.'” (01/12/25)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/largest-nurses-strike-in-new-york-city-history-zohran-mamdani
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55) Trump Promotes Regulatory Relief — Not Subsidies — as the Solution to Obamacare
Source: Bluegrass Institute
by Michael F Cannon
“States don’t need to wait for Congress. In Kentucky, Rep. Vanessa Grossl (R‑Georgetown) introduced legislation that would immediately let residents access Obama’s 2014 relief by removing barriers to Obamacare-exempt plans available in US territories.” (01/12/26)
https://www.bluegrassinstitute.org/trump-promotes-regulatory-relief-not-subsidies-as-the-solution-to-obamacare/
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56) The Fifth Column, 01/13/26
Source: The Fifth Column
“The Young Turks’ agent provocateur joins us for a totally civilized conversation about Iran, Israel, ICE, and the what happened to the great state of California.” (01/13/26)
https://www.wethefifth.com/p/why-cant-we-be-friends-w-ana-kasparian
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57) The Good Fight, 01/13/26
Source: Yascha Mounk
“Yascha Mounk and Rebecca Goldstein debate whether our desperate need for significance is a flaw we should overcome — or an essential part of human dignity.” (01/13/26)
https://writing.yaschamounk.com/p/rebecca-goldstein
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58) The Bryan Hyde Show, 01/13/26
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly check-in with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. If you need a reality check, Eric is a great source of clarity.” (01/13/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-rqxzz-1a18bee
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59) Chris Brunet on The Scott Horton Show
Source: The Scott Horton Show
“Chris Brunet on the People Getting Rich Off of Trump’s Intervention in Venezuela.” (01/13/26)
https://scotthorton.org/interviews/1-9-26-chris-brunet-on-the-people-getting-rich-off-of-trumps-intervention-in-venezuela/
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60) SolutionsWatch, 01/13/26
Source: The Corbett Report
“The Edward Institute: A Post-Mortem.” (01/13/26)
https://corbettreport.com/the-edward-institute-a-post-mortem/
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61) Advisory Opinions, 01/13/26
Source: The Dispatch
“The Conservative Warren Court of Today.” (01/13/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/advisoryopinions/the-conservative-warren-court-of-today/
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62) Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 01/13/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“US Airstrikes Against Iran ‘On the Table,’ IDF Destroys 2,500 Gaza Buildings Since ‘Truce,’ and More.” (01/13/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX_grG-OHkM
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63) System Update, episode 564
Source: System Update
“The U.S. Does Not Want ‘Liberation’ for Iran; Plus: Jasmine Crockett Rejuvenates Identity Politics Apology Rituals from Bowen Yang.” (01/12/26)
https://rumble.com/v748vn8-the-u.s.-does-not-want-to-liberate-iran-plus-bowen-yang-jasmine-crockett-sy.html
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64) Free Speech Unmuted, 01/12/26
Source: Hoover Institution
“2025: The Year In Free Speech | Eugene Volokh and Jane Bambauer.” (01/12/26)
https://free-speech-unmuted.podbean.com/e/2025-the-year-in-free-speech-eugene-volokh-and-jane-bambauer-hoover-institution/
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65) Ron Paul Liberty Report, 01/12/26
Source: Ron Paul Liberty Report
“Will Trump Use US Military For Iran ‘Regime Change’ Operation?” (01/12/26)
https://rumble.com/v748cec-will-trump-use-us-military-for-iran-regime-change-operation.html
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